C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

Except that woman would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I mean, they convict women of killing men who have abused them for years - put them in intensive care; women who’ve flatlined and been brought back by medical staff get life in prison for killing their abuser.

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Some people love the alpha myth…

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“Some” people, “certain” individuals, yeah, that’s some careful phrasing there, @ObakeBakaNeko! :rofl:

Let’s be clear, insecure men love the alpha myth, because it’s all they’ve got. Most of us despise it. I have more than enough trouble keeping my own life together, I do not want to run anybody else’s. And most of the guys I know take the same tack. These misogynistic, small-minded idiots need to grow up.

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Insecure women love it as well, because it absolves them of any personal responsibility for making choices.

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Choices were made.

These myths about alphas, hard times create hard men, etc. Are just figures of speech. I doubt the neomacho people could live without toilet paper, running water, and chocolate milk from their mom.

Here in Brazil, there are groups that organize spiritual retreats and excursions to remote areas, where men climb gentle hills in order to learn how to be men in an intensive weekend course. I highly doubt they teach how to change a diaper, use a power drill, understand the Brazilian political system and how to vote consciously, how to avoid debt from a consumerist lifestyle, how to fix an electrical outlet, how to guide your child toward adulthood, how to maintain a healthy relationship with your wife, how to organize community service, taking care of aging parents, how to plan a good retirement etc.

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A blast from the past:

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Ugh those retreat things. Don’t get me wrong a vacation is great and tourist experiences can be fun. But I think it is funny to imagine two tourists from the US unwittingly getting the same trip, one shaman themed guided woman’s empowerment journey and one alpha man survivalist journey, sharing the same campfire on different nights and learning nothing from it.

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In this case, this is a christian/evangelical/conservative group. I think it is a fringe group, but somehow the local media love to talk about them, speacially when they get stranded on the top of a hill and have to call the firemen to recsue them or when they leave a lot of trash on national parks.

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Wait… “But Broken before God…” what? Why would God want all the men broken? Why would God want other men to break you? What a weird cult.

I seriously think at this point a good deal of Christianity is just unethical low-eq bdsm for homophobes.

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“Return the hunter hero to each family…”

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I am seriously picturing these guys freaking out that there is no woman to clean their campsite. (Who am I kidding? Of course there was!)

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They left a lot of trash on trail once…

Oh, and women aren’t allowed in their gatherings and you have to pay at about US$ 1,500.00 to enjoy the indoctrination.

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For the record, ancient historian Bret Devereaux took a pretty detailed look at that meme here. It is of course not accurate either.

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I think you need to secure the film rights for this story, today.

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